FULLY LOADED FSX NGX - TAKEOFF TO ROME 

Expanding the mind by studying and learning something most people would not normally ever be able to do, the sense of achievement at mastering a long and complex flight correctly and by the book after studying and practicing everything leading up to it, the pleasure that comes from mastering the skills necessary to complete a particularly challenging approach etc etc.

This is my job. I write for a flight sim magazine, and this channel is a business (albeit a small one). It made a huge amount of sense for me to dig into this aircraft as much as I could - the 200,000 views the videos on it have picked up kinda testify to that.

That was good. Very professional. It is amazing the depth of the sim. It is apparent that being a pilot is not for everyone. It is really so much more about attention to detail and procedures than it is stick and rudder.

No problem. Glad you're enjoying them.

Thanks for putting these videos together, Froogle. The amounts of add-ons running simultaneously seems insane to learn and manage.

Just like other responders I would like to thank you for making videos like these which fill in the blanks for me, introduce me to some aspects of the NGX I hadn't used before and motivate me to carry on educating myself in this field, Cheers Marc

I am very impressed. Not only with your attention to detail, but the hardware and software running together. Mt PC would crash so hard that I may never recover! Like I said, impressive.

Good to hear. Just checked out the site and it looks promising. I'm sticking with BAV though - we have 1200 active pilots, and are supported by the actual airline.

Completely agree. I'm studying the Airbus X at the moment and while it's complex, it feels like a vacation compared to the NGX.

You're welcome - glad you enjoyed the vids.

Truly appreciate the dedication with which you make these videos. Remarkable to watch! Thank you so much.

Liveries for the NGX also define the cockpit equipment to use. This is still an -800, just without winglets and different cockpit equipment config. It is a private download available to British Airways Virtual pilots to make the NGX appear more like the standard 400's BA flies.

Thank you sir. And yes I am looking at Vatsim

Thank you again :) Glad you're getting a kick out of the vids.

Thanks! I lurk on Avsim, also A2A and Aerosoft as well as, of course, British Airways Virtual. I will do a setup video at some point yes.

I'm not surprised!!! Congrats on your new stick.

I've been flying sims since about 1985. I've been writing about them for magazines since around 1999. I started flying for real in 1997. But no, I am not a pilot. I just love flying.

i love this kind of simulation games, this its really fantastic

Depends how deep you want to go. You can run through the two tutorial flights included with the aircraft in a few hours. After that, it's up to you. It took me about 3 months.

Absolutely. I just have so many add-ons running I prefer to spread the load.

I don't want to know how you linked two computers together and how you managed to have it run so smoothly. Just the fact that you did it at all elevates your status to the top. I bow in the presence of a Master..,.

Yeah agreed on every point. I actually fly more on Vatsim these days than with Radar Contact but I'm building up the realism and complexity in the videos ..;)

Of course. I have to edit it up though and combine it with the footage from the other PC etc etc. I hope to have it ready within the next day or two.

Don't forget to check the full description of this video guys if you are interested in seeing the mass of software and add-ons that were running across the PCs in this video.

Welcome, and thanks for subscribing.

Thank you - yes I it is a passion of mine.

Thanks for the info. Makes perfect sense now.

2 PC's where used to make this. Link to the specs as well as all the software used is in the video description.

Yes, I will be. Have had it about a week now and have been studying.

Wow! What a video! Now the same with VATSIM (as mentioned and really bad weather and maybe a longhaul flight! Awesome Froogle Pete! :)

I had that line up in real life. At Manchester on a Monarch A321 bound for Paphos, we lined up on the runway and waited for around 10 mins whilst an Easyjet A319 cut in front of us, I believe that was Paphos bound also, and then a BA A320 also cut in front bound for Heathrow. It's weird seeing planes line up together but it does happen, especially at congested times.

If I may make a suggestion you could try a flight from LIMF (Torino Caselle) to LGW. It's BAW 2579 The take-off from Turin usually involves a right climbing turn straightening out a bit and then another climbing turn that puts you back above the airport. The whole purpose is to get enough height to cross the Alps. Crossing France is relatively boring but the let down across the Channel is quite rapid. LIMF-MF401-MF402-MF403-SIRLO-BLA-MOLUS-ROMTA-DJL-TUNOR-LAULY-BRY-CLM-SOSUN-SUBIP-WAFFU-CAMRA-EGKK The SID for this is SIRLO at 4000ft Here is the take-of in a VC10 ( the 737 for that day was US) Super VC10 how to Fly using Voicechecklist and PFE ATC Have a good flight!

lol thanks. Changes are coming. As I just announced on the main channel (frooglepete) I am scaling back that channel and Frooglesim is now the main channel so that gives me a Butt load more time to spend on these vids for you guys (and racing)

Yeah agree completely. I've often wanted to use it for VFR flights. People are recommending I check out ProATC so maybe that does...

Radar Contact - as shown in the video description, and I think I mention it a couple of times in the video as well. .

And again, this episode flew past me. I mean, seriously. This isn't a very popular channel, but I still love your videos. For flucks sake, RU-vid....

Thanks for the tip. Someone else mentioned that to me on the forums recently and I am curious.

nice froogle. best pilot ive sceen yet

I wasn't aware that FSX was available as a download. It comes on 2 DVDs when you buy it. I suggest you contact your vendor for support to see what they say.

Possibly. You could still make a lot of use for things like choosing the appropriate approach, SID and STAR, but honestly you'd probably get better value picking up the actual charts from Navigraph and working from them.

FANTASTIC equipment and software Config...great Video..please do more...must admit I am going to use them as tutoirials,

yes indeed it would be great for you to explain your setup. for example, having rex and still using active sky as wx engine, or using the other computer and connecting it to the simulator, i didn't quite get that. active sky has loads of settings as far as i can remember. making all these addons work together is an art. the place you get your charts also is a point of interest. finding up to date charts are a big hassle.

Thanks Felipe.

It is my hope over time that I can educate those who are members of that small and special group. Those I can't will typically just wander off, or get physically helped to wander off should they choose to vocalize their ineptitude.

Any man who in an aircraft that size who says "I got run over by a bus" is worth an instant sub

Wonderful as always!

I can't no. It took a huge amount of work and research and software to achieve. I may at some point do a video on it. To start you off try Googling WideFS and SimConnect. Everything is based around those two things.

Nice vid but one tip for future reference....On the ground you never want to arm the auto throttle until on the runway because if you hit the toga button by accident it will automatically throttle up and you can crash and LNAV and VNAV USUALLY(not always) are engaged until after takeoff. But still, of course, a great vid=)

thank you very much worked a treat! keep up the good videos dude loving them

Or more! I saw a throttle quadrant today for the NGX for over a thousand.

I actually don't recall. I think it was from reading various posts from the senior 737 chaps at BAV on the forums, as well as documentation in the training sections of the site.

Spot on, mate! Brilliant video! Thumbs up for all your setup/equipment and AddOns, looks really professional and I guess you enjoy it a lot :)

There is a video coming in a few weeks which is the next phase of the 737 stuff (prior to me releasing videos on a certain other Boeing I've been testing), and that will be with VatSim.

It was a flaps 5 take off, as briefed in the departure briefing, yes

This video was made on an Alienware Aurora R2 - specs are in the channel description.

Nope. This livery is available from British Airways Virtual after you have joined. It is a full PMDG livery in that when you install it and select it, it also reconfigures the aircraft. In the case of this particular aircraft that means removing some of the glass displays, the winglets, and the HGS.

frooglesim, I don’t mean to criticize, but to be more precise, at 31:40, the RC ground controller told you to "line up and wait" not "taxi into position and hold." The controller meant for you to line up and wait behind the aircraft that was holding. I'm guessing EFB was actually wrong in this case. Sometimes all of these automated systems don't quite work together and have a glitch once in awhile....but great vidwo none the less. Not a big deal, :-) All your videos are fantastic! I don't have FS2Crew at this time, but it sounds good. Just might get it future after watching this. Glad you have brought XPlane to our attention (another video) as well....like you, flying is more important to me.....the scenery is not that important. Perhaps I can learn to fly the helicopter with X-Plane! I can get by on FSX, but not great.

OK, I gotta ask, how do you make a Flight Simulator interesting to watch to point where I'm thinking of downloading a copy?

You need to buy FS2Crew for each aircraft you want it to support. So, in this video, this is obviously FS2Crew for the PMDG737 NGX with voice support.

3 programs. SimConnect that is built into FSX Deluxe and the SDK, WideFS that's listed up above, and Aivlasoft EFB that has everything it needs built in.

You can click on the Hard Mute button, and also manually select the phase of flight FS2Crew thinks you should be in. Most of us though leave it enabled even on Vatsim.

Really enjoying your video, you know your stuff and is helping me alot, many thanks

Cool! If you were doing ground the other night you probably saw me. Flew Gatwick Rome, then had to restart about 30 minutes later - around 3 in the morning your time.

Hi Froogle, I joined on you channel the last two weeks and start to watch your old videos. My friend at this moment I like all. I flight with FS from 1996 and still with FSX with couples add-on. Last year I bought VoxATC and let me tell you, is awesome, you need to try it. I start also the last year the flight school for my private license and VoxATC help me to improve the VFR communication and the terminology, because you need to talk directly to the controller. Off course work for IFR too. I not try yet Vatsim, because I don't known if people are connected in the area where is my home base (6B6). Also I bought the last X-plane 10 and look good. I would like that some third part can improve the ATC system. Thanks for these videos, and sorry for my spelling, I m not originally from USA.

I never tweaked the settings in the EFB so I don't know. Perhaps it's a function of zoom - you need to zoom in more? The lines by the way are, a line under means at or above, a line above means at or below, a line above and below means strictly at.

You can buy FSX from Amazon or Microsoft's own games marketplace. The 737 NGX is available to buy from PMDG (google them). Also if you Google FS2Crew you'll find their store where you buy that particular add-on.

I haven't flown that I'm afraid so can't help. However, I will be looking at the DC9 after I finish up the review and plan on some tutorials with it - the principles on that aircraft will be similar, but unfortunately you're going to have to wait until the new year.

Lots of reading, research and investigation.

Hello, I am very new to these Flight sims and like to think ive tapped out FSX for all its worth, meaning that ive completed all of its missions, several times in FSX. Ive tried downloading new missions, but i couldnt get any to work and im not going to pay for more missions, not going to happen. My question is, does X-Plane 10 offer pre-loaded missions similar to FSX?

It varies considerably based on the aircraft I'm flying. In this video a Saitek Pro Flight Yoke, Saitek Switch Panel and Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals.

We'll see. I revisited this idea this morning and it would be very very hard to do - there was a huge amount of trial and error involved in building my set up and the last thing I want to do is put up a video that gets me flooded with a few thousand "How do I..." requests. Still thinking about it though.

As I mention in the video, it's an add on for this specific aircraft called FS2Crew. It recognizes my voice and acts as a first officer is supposed to.

Not sure I know what you mean. To sign up with BAV head over to the website, click apply and wait. I think we have about 100 people in the waiting list at the moment as BAV limits the number of pilots on the roster to around 1250.

It's something Fraps let's you do, so you can easily turn it off in the settings :) Sometimes it's interesting for the audience to be aware of the creators framerate. Great video!

AivlaSoft EFB. I listed all the software used in this video in the video description.

you don't really know how much I envy your graphics.. I would never get that in my PC, ENJOY!!!

It's a game (FSX), with an addon (PMDG's 737NGX) and an addon for that (FS2Crew) that lets me talk to a virtual co-pilot to manage the aircraft.

Yes, that's a feature of FS2Crew, and addon for the NGX.

Sweet. Can't wait.

Your videos blow my mind. The detail of the content and explanation of everything. Great videos!! Keep it up - From New subscriber

I don't have it running in front of me, but I seem to recall you click on Flight Plan, enter the start, enter the end and go. I don't import flight plans into it but just set the direct route and it tends to figure out what I'm going to need along the way so there's no jarring shifts in weather en-route.

lol you guys kill me. It takes SOOOOOO much time to make each of these. I have the Airbus X here and am studying it to make vids on it. As I type this though I just spent 3 hours editing part 2 of this and Sony Vegas has been beavering away for the past hour trying to render it out. When that's all done I can turn my attention back to the Airbus (and the KA-50, DC-9, A-10, Civilian Mustang, Milviz F-15E etc etc etc etc). Need more viewers then I can make this full time and please everyone :D :D

Wow that's a lot of questions, and some I can't answer. For PC information and advice I'd highly recommend you read the forums at Avsim. FSX does have some training built in yes, and it will certainly get you started. Personally I just did a TON of reading over the years, and ultimately started to take flying lessons, before going back and doing even more reading on the stuff you won't learn in a PPL course (SIDs, STARs, etc). Join a forum or community and start asking questions, read PCPilot

Sitting here at SDF (inthe real world) Love this video! Thank you so much. EFB is the next thing to dent my wallet.

It's an Add-on Aircraft developed by a third party Developer called "PMDG", You have to buy, and install the plane to use it, I'd really recommend it if you;re a serious simmer as it's just fantastic

Thank you sir.

I love watching your videos.. Learned so much. Thanks.

Not sure in this video - I haven't watched it in a while, and I'm busy working through comments right now. It would either have been the built in PMDG pushback accessed through fS2Crew, or it would have been GSX.

You can accelerate the time but I typically do not. I am currently flying London to Orlando for example - it's expected to take 8 hours.

It's an option you need to turn on inside the EFB. I think it's a T or a TA icon or something - can't recall offhand.

I really think I have to check that out.

Thank you sir!

Hey Froogle today I have downloaded the UK2000 Gatwick scenery and i think It is very beautiful, and it is much better on framerates than Aerosoft's airport sceneries.

Froogle: *To the autothrottle* Stop That! Me: You tell that autothrottle froogle!

Love your videos very well made and informative great job Thank you

If you also hate pushing an invisible button on the mcp to get takeoff thrust, you could define a key in the FSX controles menu :)

Lots and lots and lots of studying, practicing, and more studying.

Some play to fulfill their unachieved dream of becoming pilots. Some of us use Flight Simulator with modifications to feed our vocation during real life pilot training inbetween training flights. Hell, I know of some real life Airline pilots who love their jobs so much, that they use the sim at home either for fun or to stay current with some procedures or to practice for their exams. You have to know aviation is a very passionate hobby as well as a very strong vocation.

I fly for British Airways virtual - we are approved by BA and have BA pilots flying with us. The benefit of that is that they are able to write our Standard Operating Procedures based on the real world and our SOP's for some airports dictate what are our preferred runways.

You will always need to tweak FSX for performance, but no I don't use any addons to add graphical effects etc. What you see in my vids is effectively live.